> Scrollback rarely works as planned, for me. Overall, a balance must be
> found.
>
> More information is more helpful. But.
>
> There are downsides to spewing everything possible, upon error. You
> cause logging to the possibly problematic disk, you push older messages
> out of the printk ring buffer, etc., etc.
Get yourself a Voodoo5 or similar card cheap off ebay. The firmware on
most of them doesn't clear the top 30MB of RAM on a reboot/PCI reset
which makes them excellent debug buffers providing you empty the buffer
before you run the X server.
Alan
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